Motivational Quotes

Science

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Science

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Neumann, John Von

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Klee, Paul

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

Shakespeare, William

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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

James, Henry

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Artaud, Antonin

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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The true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Churchill, Winston

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Sontag, Susan

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Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Hales, Stephen